crazy-canuck wrote:I think wiggs new found floater game is the reason he doesnt get stripped as much anymore.
he goes to that 2 or 3 times a game now and it looks silky smooth.
It's a shot players need in their arsenal the way bigs play drop coverage these days.
Modern offenses are designed to take as many shots as possible at the rim or from 3. Modern defenses are trying to prevent those very same shots, thus giving up open floaters in order to prevent shots at the rim. Notice how Wiggins hardly ever resorts to the spin move anymore? It's just not needed as much because bigs aren't meeting him out in the mid-range but standing back and just walling up beneath the hoop. Let's hope he keeps converting that shot.
crazy-canuck wrote:I think culver can be our malcolm brogdan type pg.
He did some good things out there.
I wouldn't go quite that far yet, but yeah, I thought Culver was solid-ish in his role last night. He was 40%+ from 3 for the 3rd game in a row. That to me is THE most important aspect of the game for him. I think the finishing around the rim will come with time, but it's that outside shot that has had me most concerned.
crazy-canuck wrote:I think wiggs new found floater game is the reason he doesnt get stripped as much anymore.
he goes to that 2 or 3 times a game now and it looks silky smooth.
It's a shot players need in their arsenal the way bigs play drop coverage these days.
Modern offenses are designed to take as many shots as possible at the rim or from 3. Modern defenses are trying to prevent those very same shots, thus giving up open floaters in order to prevent shots at the rim. Notice how Wiggins hardly ever resorts to the spin move anymore? It's just not needed as much because bigs aren't meeting him out in the mid-range but standing back and just walling up beneath the hoop. Let's hope he keeps converting that shot.
That spin move looked might fine when he split 3 defenders and found layman for a wide open which he made.
crazy-canuck wrote:I think wiggs new found floater game is the reason he doesnt get stripped as much anymore.
he goes to that 2 or 3 times a game now and it looks silky smooth.
It's a shot players need in their arsenal the way bigs play drop coverage these days.
Modern offenses are designed to take as many shots as possible at the rim or from 3. Modern defenses are trying to prevent those very same shots, thus giving up open floaters in order to prevent shots at the rim. Notice how Wiggins hardly ever resorts to the spin move anymore? It's just not needed as much because bigs aren't meeting him out in the mid-range but standing back and just walling up beneath the hoop. Let's hope he keeps converting that shot.
That spin move looked might fine when he split 3 defenders and found layman for a wide open which he made.
Wiggins has actually had that floater game for at least a year he uses it well finishing on post ups. He is using it more now when he gets into the paint instead of going all the way to the rim. He had a nice night passing the ball.
lipoli390 wrote:I didn't watch the game tonight. But judging from the score, the Wolves must have been awfully bad on the defensive end. Looks like the Grizzlies guards/wings feasted on the Wolves perimeter defense tonight with PG Morant scoring 26 points, SG Brooks scoring 30 and SF Crowder scoring 18.
Alas, the Wolves are now in 9th place in the Conference, which is really where they belong. The 4-1 start was nice except to the extent it created a false sense of hope for this season's Wolves. There are some positives. We're 4-3 and Wiggins is playing well. But this still looks like a lottery team to me, although if Wiggins continues his improved play it looks more like a 38-win team than a 28-win team.
JV and Clarke feasted inside and on the boards. There was no resistance.
So it was bad perimeter and interior defense. Pretty much what we saw last season.
Lip if you watched the game I think you would see how this Memphis team was just hitting shots all over like Q said. I'm not suggesting the wolves played awesome D and Memphis hit every tough shot but...Memphis is a bad 3 point shooting team. And they hit 12-23. I bet you can guess what the scouting report was on those guys. Meanwhile I bet the shot chart would also reveal they hit a bunch of not at the rim shots if you know what I mean. Kyle anderson...I swear he traveled every time he dribbled near the paint (And I am a fan of that guy) and there was no call. Towns flagrant foul on a simple 3 point contest was emphatically ridiculous. Might as well suspend half the league tomorrow. It was a foul but Flagrant? W T F?!?!? Cabolclo banked in a 3 at a key point when the Wolves had made a run. It felt more one of those nights than the Wolves playing really bad.
Andrew Wiggins' last 3 games, 25.3 PPG, 4.0 APG, 3.3 RPG, 1.3 BPG, 48.3 FG%, 45.8 3P%
I hope someone shows him these numbers because those are All-Star numbers -- numbers that he doesn't often maintain. Exactly how he's doing this is certainly repeatable, though. He's done a much better job of getting in the paint and either finishing at the rim or using his floater/push shot in the in-between game. He's also taking and making threes that make sense -- threes that you're not shaking your head at or wondering why he pulled the trigger. Additionally, we're seeing more of Wiggins utilizing step-backs to get behind the three-point line instead of firing away from 18-feet like we've seen so often in the past.
Wiggins is arguably the most-discussed player on this forum since he got to Minnesota, and if you've been here long at all you know that my biggest gripe with him has been that he doesn't live at the rim like he should. Well, he's doing much better as of late and I'm happy to give him that. He's at his very best when he can get a good screen at the top of the key or dribble handoff action and attack downhill. More of this and less forcing him to create 1v1 in isolation. The latter has never been his game and likely never will be.
Overall, I'm pleased with Wigs in the last several games and I sincerely hope the "how" continues with him regardless of results. His numbers will obviously regress a bit, but the way in which he's playing lately is going to be his best bet to be a positive player for the Wolves.
Yes our defense sucked. We simply couldn't keep their guards in front of us. For that matter we couldn't keep most of their players in front of us.
Shocker . . . with Teague and Napier I think we win this game running away. They got to their spots, they moved the ball very well (we did not). They got some confidence early and were the more physical team as a rresult.
This was a very bad game . . . but with Teague on the floor this would not have happened.
We worked our butts off on defense, and they really didn't have to do anything on defense.
